Test_Lab_series
Test_Lab is a bi-monthly public event organized by V2_ that provides an informal setting for the presentation, demonstration, testing, and discussion of artistic research and development (aRt&D).
Although each edition has a specific theme, Test_Labs have a low entry threshold and are therefore always accessible for a wide audience of interested people. New developments in the field of artistic research and development (aRt&D) are demonstrated, tested, presented and discussed at the Test_Labs. The programs offer a broad context for new work and work in development, bringing together specialists from a wide range of scientific and artistic disciplines, young creators, students, and theorists in an informal setting. In each individual Test_Lab program, a different aRt&D subject is tackled through an individualistic, constantly changing, and informal format.
Because input and feedback from experts, colleagues and potential users/audience members is crucial in the development process of interactive art, audience participation is an important component of these programs. Thus Test_Lab offers participating artists, scientists, technicians, theorists and students a unique informal, art-oriented test environment (usually absent in the studio or laboratory), and the always-present hands-on elements mean no visitor leaves without trying, experiencing, making or testing something new. At Test_Lab, visitors thus often transform into participants, and participants into their own audience. In this playful manner, each edition of Test_Lab offers a glimpse behind the scenes of artistic research and development. Entry to Test_Labs is free.
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2010
Come and test new artworks by Anouk Wipprecht, Joachim Rotteveel, Mark Shepard and Ivan Henriques developed at V2_ during this year’s Summer Sessions!
Test_Lab at ISEA2010 RUHR
V2_ brings it's Test_Lab format to Germany by organizing a special edition of Test_Lab Summer Sessions 2010 at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dortmund.
Test_Lab: The Invisible City
This edition will feature a selection of freshly graduated artists, architects, and designers from European art and design academies whose projects explore the invisible aspects of our contemporary urban environments.
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers
Will artists end up merely designing urban screen savers, or can we save the urban screen as an artistic medium?
Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda
Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world.
Test_Lab: Intimate Interfaces
Create electronic circuitry on bare skin, enter a digital network by wearing a veil, see through clothing without X-Ray vision. Test and debate some truly new forms of techno-intimacy in this edition of Test_Lab!
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions
At the end of the summer of 2009, a new Test_Lab season started, with presentations of new works by artists-in-residence Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri, and David de Buyser, developed during V2_'s Summer Sessions.
Test_Lab at Festival Ars Electronica
V2_ presented a special edition of Test_Lab: Summer Sessions at the Festival Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz. Respondent: David Stolarsky (Ars Electronica Futurelab), performance: Robot Cowboy (Dan Wilcox, Ars Electronica Futurelab).
Test_Lab: What Crisis?!
In this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision, laying out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions ...
Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology
A Tweet shirt that twitters, a performance of The Perfect Human, a presentation of the Hugshirt, and a debate with experts in techno-ethics and wearable technology.
Test_Lab: Artistic Interfaces
In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in (counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by interaction designer and researcher Kristina Andersen, and exemplified through demonstrations of the ...
Test_Lab: Better Than Reality
Virtual Reality's esthetic possibilities have changed enormously during recent years. By demonstrating state-of-the-art AR and VR artworks and by discussing those in the light of the promises made by early VR visionaries, Test_Lab: Better than ...
Test_Lab: goes Noordkaap
V2_ and Noordkaap Foundation invite you to witness how artists, designers, and performers give their views on potential solutions for the Voorstraat Noord urban development case, by taking you on city walks, seducing you to play urban games, and ...
Test_Lab: Happiness
This Test_lab will showcase a selection of 2008's most outstanding graduation projects from some of the finest European art academies and universities. Together, the demonstrated works will broaden our horizons regarding a young generation's ...
Test_Lab: Space Time Play
An evening dedicated to computer games, architecture, art activism and urbanism as theorized and practiced by artists, architects and game designers, organized by V2_ in cooperation with Workspace Unlimited.
Test_Lab: Topology
Topology is often mentioned as an ultimate example of the same subject being studied in parallel within various branches of science and art, each branch approaching the subject from its own background and with its own methodologies. Today, there are ...
Test_Lab: Multi_modal
Although technological innovation in art and media has greatly enhanced the ways in which artworks can stimulate our senses, this innovation predominantly concerns the same few sensory modalities, and only rarely aims at supporting the integration ...
Test_Lab: Live_Coding
Test_Lab: Live_Coding will feature debates and presentations on "Live Coding", a networked code jamming performance, live coded music, introductions and hands-on experiences in "Live Coding" programming languages for code improvisation, and a live ...
Test_Lab: Audio_Objects
In Test_Lab: Audio_Objects, some of the most promising new physical audio interfaces will be demonstrated, tested, and discussed among experts and audience.
Test_Lab: PLAY!
European art graduation projects 2007, featuring "Dobrze" by Dorota Walentynowicz, "Block H." by Faith Denham, "CollecTic" by Jonas Hielscher, "Wi-Fi Straitjacket" by Gordan Savicic, and "Paraphernalia" by Nancy Mauro-Flude. With invited speakers ...
